Quotes About Labels

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

So many people want to label you as funny or aggressive or a mess. We are condemned by other people to stagnate in the image they have of us; held ransom by their expectations like a butterfly pinned on cardboard.

Literature and film in my opinion are like saloons where bottles have no labels. I want to taste each one myself and figure out which is what. If I'm denied this by labelling, then my entertainment is considerably lessened.

A lot of people call you a feminist painter. What indeed, I say. I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the point of discussing it at all?

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

she'd felt from David was crushed by it. Every day of her life she'd insulted other uglies and had been insulted in return. Fattie, Pig-Eyes, Boney, Zits, Freak—all the names uglies called one another, eagerly and without reserve. But equally, without exception, so that no one felt shut out by some irrelevant mischance of birth.

The music business was built around five pillars: • Free radio promotion • A limited number of competing music labels • The high cost of production, requiring musicians to get financing from labels • The Top 40 hits–based focus of the baby boomer generation • A high-margin, nonreproducible medium (the LP) Notice that none of these five pillars has anything to do with tribes or leadership. One by one, each of these five pillars has crumbled

The love of Christ knows no boundaries, recognizes no labels.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

Even cannibals don't like to be called cannibals.

People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren't opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.

People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren't opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.

Ludzie, cienie, dobro, z?o, niebo, piek?o: wszystko to tylko etykietki, nic wi?cej. Ludzie sami stworzyli te przeciwie?stwa: natura ich nie dostrzega?a. W naturze nawet ?ycie i ?mier? nie by?y przeciwie?stwami - po prostu jedno stawa?o si? przed?u?eniem drugiego.stwa

Why did people call it Hell?" I wondered. [...] No place was Hell, no place could be Hell. It's the people calling it Hell, that's the only thing that made it so. People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly anymore. [...] No, Hell wasn't anything to do with place, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.

I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no definitions, there's no labels.

Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

en la terminología general quedó este término para ellos, así como el de «rojos» para los republicanos. Pero el problema principal era que esa división en dos zonas, roja y nacional, no se correspondía exactamente con quienes estaban en ellas.

The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion -- only the body wears those labels.

I hope people listen to the music. Don't write it off because there is a Christian doing it and it's been labeled that way, because if I'm honest with you, Christian rap for the most part has been corny.

When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for you, like, 'Oh, gospel rap!'

I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.'

When people ask me what I call myself, I am not going to say 'Christian rapper,' because what they think of when they hear Christian rap is something very different from what I do.

If you look at companies like Twitter, Google, all these companies started with ideas and then everybody used it. In my world, people don't think like that. Rappers chase the next check. They become a slave to labels and eventually that money starts shrinking.